The ‘Pokémon Go’ Servers Are Down, Hackers Claiming Credit

Briefly: Last week, Nintendo and Niantic delayed the global launch of Pokémon GO amidst major, consistent server issues that players have been experience due to GO being one of the biggest mobile (and potentially gaming in general) launches of all time.

Since then, the game has slowly been rolling out to new, mostly European countries (sorry, Japan and Canada), culminating with a launch in 26 new countries early this morning. It also appears that the game’s servers have been down all morning, with most players blaming the outage on the gigantic expansion of the game’s availability.

Apparently, this may not be the case, as hacker group PoodleCorp has taken to Twitter to take credit for the ongoing outage.

https://twitter.com/PoodleCorp/status/754298236093857792

They noted that this attack “Just was a lil test, we will do something on a larger scale soon.”

https://twitter.com/xotehpoodle/status/754329907300339712

It’s tough to tell whether this was a true attack, or just another server failure (as has been all too common with Pokémon GO since its launch), but with nobody able to log in, and for such a long time, there’s definitely something different about this outage.

Bastards. What are we supposed to do with this warm Summer day now!?

Are you playing Pokémon GO? Of course you are. What’s been your best catch so far?